Listen to this articleBelow is our recent interview with Johanne Kragh Olesen, Communication Expert at Sustaina Company:
Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to your company?
A: Sustaina Company is a team of CSR and ESG experts based in Denmark. With experience from the textile industry, our purpose is to use our knowledge of sustainable business performance and development to advise and educate our customers in a simple, hands-on, and practical manner. We are now a part of ebp Global.
ebp Global is a global boutique management consulting firm with offices in London, New York, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Copenhagen, and Singapore. They deliver impactful solutions to their clients’ most complex problems, with specialised expertise across value chain activities in various industries, primarily focusing on the apparel, footwear and catering industries. We all strive to build long-term relations with some of the world’s most well-known brands.
Q: Any highlights on your recent announcement?
A: Consumers increasingly demand and request that companies take responsibility for their actions and impact on its surroundings – the environment and people alike. Therefore, sustainability is a strategic business capability that major brands and corporations need to address. If companies focus solely on operations excellence without including sustainability into core decision making processes, it puts them as increased brand and financial risk.
But this is easier said than done. Companies face multiplying challenges concerning sustainability in their value chains, such as traceability issues and European sustainability legislation. Such issues are extremely difficult to solve if you do not have the necessary skills and knowledge.
Becoming a part of ebp Global, which has already established an international presence, we are able to offer our expertise and help more companies overcome these challenges – and we are very excited to get started!
Our announcement has been received very well around the globe and most importantly by our customers.
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Q: Can you give us more insights into your offering?
A: In Sustaina Company specifically, we can help with a host of different ESG- and CSR-related areas.
- Different certifications (such as GOTS, GRS, RWS, RMS, OEKO-TEX, FSC, B-CORP)
- CSR strategy
- Product compliance and support on legal requirements
- Dos and don’ts in CSR communication, incl. concerns of greenwashing
- Sustainability/ESG reports
In general, in ebp Global, we integrate sustainable environmental processes into the End-to-End supply chain. We build solutions to drive value creation throughout the supply chain organisations to reduce total environmental impact. This includes a number of processes such as:
- Product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing and production, operation & end-of-life management.
- Regulations and compliance alignment strategy,
- Sourcing strategy – traceability and data ecosystem
- Sourcing and vendor strategy
Q: What can we expect from your company in next 6 months? What are your plans?
A: The next six months will especially be characterized by the two teams from Sustaina Company and ebp Global getting to know each other better. Our wish is to integrate the offer of sustainability expertise into ebp Global and extend this offer to the ebp Global clients as well as to expand Sustaina Company beyond Danish and Scandinavian borders.
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Q: What is the best thing about your company that people might not know about?
A: We aspire to be transparent with our clients and community (you have to practice what we preach), so there is not much that people do not know or could not find out. And perhaps that is the best thing about Sustaina Company – our transparency, honesty, and realism. We see ourselves as realistic about goals and opportunities, because we understand where our customers are at. We are very close with our customers, and we go beyond simply advising them about the best course of action to actually being hands-on in our work.
This is also true for the entire ebp Global organization, not just the Sustaina Company line. We don’t believe in best practice, because no one solution is a fit for all. We believe that sometimes you just need a little inspiration to discover your possibilities and a helping hand to ensure you get there. We are all operational professionals, not consultants. We are present globally with offices in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, Copenhagen, and Singapore.
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